DAY GAME ALERT!
First pitch at 1:10 p.m.
The Twins snapped a three-game losing streak last night and have a chance to split their four-game series with KC this afternoon. Not much has gone right for the Twins coming out of the gate this year. The starting pitching has been spotty and short and we've lost our ace to the IL for the foreseeable future with a tweaked hamstring. The bullpen is overworked already and that's when you see breakdowns in relief situations which we have definitely seen. And then there's the across-the-board lack of offense from this lineup. I don't know, maybe we need a rank summer sausage to banish the ass-bats and get things going at the plate.
Bailey Ober takes the mound today for the Twins. He's 0-1 after two starts, one of them abbreviated by performance, and he sports a 12.15 ERA and 2.40 WHIP coming into the game. The Royals counter with right-hander Michael Wacha. He hails from Iowa City, Iowa and his nickname is Wachamole. In two starts he's pitched 9.2 innings to a 4.66 ERA and a 1.55 WHIP and recorded 7 strikeouts.
The boys are back in town tomorrow to start a six-game homestand with series against the Tigers and Mets. I'll be at the ballpark for half of them. That's all I got, kids.
PLAY BALL!
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the contact play?
Julien's slide didn't help. Zero effort, or ability, to avoid the tag.
French Canadian-ass slide.
Tough loss again. The bullpen giving up two runs late hurts but they were put in another difficult position with the batters not scoring.